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Working in Regular Exercise for Computer Users by James Penn
[May 17, 2007] An estimated 72 percent of Americans now own a computer and are online. Add in other people worldwide who join them using computers and jumping online. And calculate in the growing obesity rate worldwide. The result is a large amount – that continues to grow – of unhealthy populations clicking keyboards for major portions of their days.
What happens most often is:
1. People continue working more and more hours on computers, many even hooked in to them via headphones with mouth pieces, taking only short breaks to get away from their terminals.
2. When these people do take breaks, they sit. And they eat.
3. When these workers go home, they repeat more of the same at home, sitting at their computers: moonlighting, growing their own businesses, having fun chatting, playing games, dating online and joining discussion forums, catching up on news and favorite ezines, and more. And again, breaks mean sitting somewhere else – generally in front of the television screen - and eating.
Well, no more of that. Now it’s time to wake up and shake up those bodies! And the best way to do that is to start with exercise. Exercise is necessary to your losing those extra pounds. And even if you don’t have any – yet- it can help get and keep you in good shape for many long, happy, healthy years ahead on your computer.